Law Dork: SCOTUS says Trump admin must “facilitate” Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s return
The Trump admin fought the order — over a man it sent to a prison in El Salvador in an “administrative error” — and lost at all three levels of federal courts.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday evening upheld a district court’s order that the Trump administration “facilitate and effectuate” the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man sent to a prison El Salvador illegally in what the administration called an “administrative error.”
The unsigned opinion for the court did note that the term “effectuate” in U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis’s initial order would need to be clarified when the case returned to her court, “with due regard for the deference owed to the Executive Branch in the conduct of foreign affairs.“
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There were no noted dissents in tonight’s order — an important fact in light of this administration’s actions in its first months.
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Law Dork: Trump admin balks at court order after SCOTUS order in Abrego Garcia case
On Friday, DOJ said it was “unable” to provide information about Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Judge Paula Xinis. A hearing in the case is set for 1 p..m. Friday.
Lucian K. Truscott IV: Shockingly, some D.C. judicial pigs have taken wing
…We could get down in the weeds as to why the court’s order was issued without naming its author or giving even a hint of what the vote might have been, but the most likely reason is that Roberts, Alito, Thomas et. al. had no interest in putting their names on a legal ruling that is bound to draw fire from Donald Trump and his political and legal sycophants.
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Atlantic: The Confrontation Between Trump and the Supreme Court Has Arrived
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Jennifer Rubin: https://contrarian.substack.com/p/undaunted-the-associate-press
Unlike Columbia University, unlike a pack of big law firms (e.g. Paul Weiss, Skadden Arps), unlike Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos, unlike ABC News, and unlike virtually every House and Senate Republican, the Associated Press (AP) refused to capitulate in the face of authoritarian bullying. Rather than accept its “punishment”—exclusion from key venues at the White House and daily access to Donald Trump, simply because it had the galling temerity to call the Gulf of Mexico…“the Gulf of Mexico”—it took the Trump censoring regime to federal court. This week, it won at the district court level.
(Jennifer Rubin more…)Ossiana Tepfenhart: The Quiet Deprogramming Of Trumpers Has Begun
(Ossiana Tepfenhart more…)Robert Reich: Twelve small reasons for modest hope
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WSJ: The U.S. and China Are Going to Economic War—and Everyone Will Suffer
Axios: China raises U.S. tariff to 125%, won’t go higher
EEAGLI: America needs smart industrial policy, not tariffs
The Trump administration’s obsession with tariffs represents the most simplistic and ultimately destructive approach to America’s complex economic challenges.Rather than offering genuine solutions, these blunt instruments deliver nothing but fleeting political headlines whilst inflicting lasting damage on the very workers they purport to help.
Make no mistake: tariffs are the economic equivalent of a sugar rush. They provide a momentary jolt to protected industries but leave the entire economic body weaker. When Trump slaps punitive fees on Chinese electronics or European automobiles, he triggers a predictable chain reaction that harms far more Americans than it helps.
(EEAGLI more…)Steven Beschloss: Donald Trump Is Not Invincible
The tariff fiasco illustrates that collective pressure can crack his seemingly immutable agenda
J.P. Morgan: US tariffs: What’s the impact on global trade and the economy?
HBR: Understanding the Global Macroeconomic Impacts of Trump’s Tariffs
Budget Lab: The Fiscal and Economic Effects of the Revised April 9 Tariffs
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Register: Pentagon celebrates snipping a whole 0.58% from defense budget in IT, DEI cuts
$5.1B cancelations pitched as efficiency move, though costly Trump birthday parade mulled
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Gil Duran: Carole Cadwalladr Warns of ‘Digital Coup’ in TED Talk
‘It’s a coup. I know you probably don’t want to hear that, and especially here, but we can’t fight it if we can’t see it. And we can’t see it if we don’t name it’
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Bulwark: Farmers Try to Keep Food on the Table Despite Trump
Thanks to Trump’s immigration and tariff policies, the outlook for agriculture is cloudy.
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Boing Boing: Thanks, Donald! Tourist travel to the US falls off a cliff
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Bulwark: One Justice Department Office Is Key to Trump’s Authoritarian Plans
The Civil Rights Division used to be the “crown jewel” of the department. Not anymore.
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Ken Klippenstein: Trump Team Prepping New Strategy for Domestic Terrorism
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ProPublica: An Algorithm Deemed This Nearly Blind 70-Year-Old Prisoner a “Moderate Risk.” Now He’s No Longer Eligible for Parole.
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Register: Self-driving car maker Musk’s DOGE rocks up at self-driving car watchdog, cuts staff
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Register: Ex-Meta exec tells Senate Zuck dangled US citizen data in bid to enter China
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Daily Beast: Trump’s Space Force Fires Colonel After Email Ripping JD Vance
AND THE PURGE GOES ON
Colonel Susan Meyers had written that Pituffik Space Base leadership did not agree with Vance’s criticism of hosts Denmark.
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Dean Blundell: Trump Is Now Mandating His Cabinet/Loyalist Wear “Trump Golden Bust” Pins